Black Student Unions to the Gang of Four: Interracial Alliances and Community Organizing from San Francisco to Seattle

Marc Arsell Robinson has served as an assistant professor of history at California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB) since 2018 and teaches courses on U.S. and African American History. He published “The Black Campus Movement in the Evergreen State: The Black Student Union at the University of Washington and Washington State University, 1967–1969,” in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly 103, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 55–66. He has published other essays and book reviews in venues such as Blackpast.org, The Western Journal of Black Studies, Reference Services Review, The Journal of Black Studies, and The Journal of African American History. He was a visiting assistant professor of history at Whitworth University from 2016 to 2018, and there he won the 2017 Provost’s Junior Faculty Award for outstanding teaching and service. Currently, he is writing a monograph on the Black Student Union and the Black Power movement in the state of Washington during the late 1960s.